THE ROSE, BY AMANDA McBROOM AND AS PERFORMED BY BETTE MIDLER

• Some say love, it is a river
• That drowns the tender reed
• Some say love, it is a razor
• That leaves your soul to bleed
• Some say love, it is a hunger
• An endless aching need
• I say love, it is a flower
• And you, its only seed
• It's the heart afraid of breaking
• That never learns to dance
• It's the dream afraid of waking
• That never takes the chance
• It's the one who won't be taken
• Who cannot seem to give
• And the soul afraid of dying
• That never learns to live
• When the night has been too lonely
• And the road has been too long
• And you think that love is only
• For the lucky and the strong
• Just remember in the winter
• Far beneath the bitter snows
• Lies the seed that with the sun's love
• In the spring becomes the rose 
• Writer/s: Amanda McBroom 
• Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Word Collections Publishing
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